Alcohol
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 67-74 , May 2003

Alcohol and nutritional control treatments during neurogenesis in rat brain reduce total neuron number in locus coeruleus, but not in cerebellum or inferior olive

Received 17 September 2002 ,Revised 21 April 2003 ,Accepted 3 May 2003.

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